EWTN’s Mother Angelica has Died

April 20, 1923 – March 27, 2016

The founder of the American Novus Ordo flagship television channel EWTN has died. Mother Mary Angelica of the Annunciation, PCPA, passed away on Easter Sunday, March 27, 2016, a few weeks short of her 93rd birthday:

Mother Angelica founded the so-called Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) as a cable channel on August 15, 1981. EWTN has been the flagship TV channel for “conservative” Novus Ordos in the United States, with satellite operations in other countries. Popular programs over the years have included Mother Angelica Live, The Journey Home, Life on the Rock, and The Abundant Life. In terms of theology, Alabama-based EWTN is closely aligned with Catholic Answers and the Franciscan University of Steubenville. A substantial critique of the many problems with the pseudo-Catholic network, especially after Mother Angelica’s departure in 2001, was published some years ago by Christopher Ferrara: EWTN: A Network Gone Wrong. Although this book is written from a Neo-Traditionalist perspective, it contains lots of solid information about the cable channel. Far from being the gold standard in Catholic orthodoxy, EWTN is actually a prime purveyor of dangerous Modernist theology and thoroughly imbued with Vatican II doctrine.

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@RadTradDad It would make it valid, but Francis may have a trick or two up his sleeve. You know, he may just do the consecration himself and appoint two other Novus Ordo co-consecrators to ensure invalidity. ;-)

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@RadTradDad It would make it valid, but Francis may have a trick or two up his sleeve. You know, he may just do the consecration himself and appoint two other Novus Ordo co-consecrators to ensure invalidity. ;-)